Now Opera will gradually introduce Opera Mini to other markets outside of Norway. Opera expects to have global availability of Opera Mini before the end of the year. The gradual implementation has to do with infrastructure, SMS gateways and logistics.

in support of Daniel I would just like to ask that what difference it makes as to whether it is an operawatch exclusive or not… this blog is about consolidated opera news… and I applaud him for doing such a good and might I remind a free service to all of us.. kudos.

If I get some information directly (exclusively) from Opera, obviously there is nothing to link to, as is the case with this post.

I also don’t like linking to press releases, you generally don’t see any in the news media link to press releases either.

On the other hand, if I get some information from a news article or some other reliable source, I usually supply a link.

I speak to people in Opera regularly, occasionally I will get some info myself, which may also be publicly available on an Opera employee’s blog, in this case, since ‘I’ didn’t first find out about it through that employee’s blog, I won’t link to it.

Perhaps, with the news I get exclusively from Opera, I should saying that it’s an Opera Watch exlusive. I don’t always like bragging 🙂

If you take a look at articles on Cnet, for example, you don’t see in every article ‘A [insert company name here] spokesperson told Cnet…’.

I think linking to sources is very important. I see many times people quote me without giving the proper credit. I work hard on getting the Opera news. It’s not easy.

Thanks for the constructive criticism, always helpful. I’m not perfect, and I’m always looking for ways to improve.